Interspecies Collaboration in Art
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""In many cultural fields honeybees reveal themselves as a highly generative species; one that humans have become dependent on. Within the backdrop of Colony Collapse Disorder, this essay examines how live bees are used in the production... more
This paper will be in two parts. The first will start from the premise that the term ‘performance studies’ means different things in different contexts. Specifically, the paper will address the distinction between i) “Performance Studies”... more
By examining two exemplary cases, this paper addresses the contemporary phenomenon of artistic collaborations between human and non-human animals, which is referred to as interspecies art. Interspecies art has become increasingly... more
“Responding to Dogs,” explores the author’s significant experiences with canine companions Tom and Sugi, and the day-to-day events that led to interspecies collaborative art productions. The essay asks, can ethics of care be integrated... more
This is an animated poem produced with canine collaborator Tom.
Wait is a short paper titled after the artwork of the same name by Julie Andreyev, Simon Lysander Overstall and canine collaborators Tom and Sugi, installed in SIGGRAPH Art Gallery, 2011. The project explores the human-companion species... more
In her project Blood in the Water, the Lebanese architectural researcher and designer Ala Tannir delineates an extraordinary “interspecies alliance”: when migrant boats sink in the Mediterranean, the agglomeration of bodies causes... more